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The Jbd Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL | $33,250 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS-HOUSTON - GLASSELL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| HOUSTON CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY | $20,500 |
| YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS-HOUSTON | $20,000 |
| THE ORANGE SHOW CENTER FOR VISIONARY ARTS | $11,000 |
| HOPE AND HEALING CENTER & INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| BAKER RIPLEY | $10,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS - HOUSTON | $6,750 |
| ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH ASPEN | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON GRAND OPERA | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
31 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON7× · 2017–2024 · $252k · revenue +96%
- BBakerRipley5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +16%
- HAHope and Healing Center & Institute5× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- PPPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -39%
- V(VICTORY (AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY)one grant, 2020 · $7k
- RSRISE SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
The mission of the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center is to provide education about the natural environment to people of all ages and to protect and enhance the Arboretum as a haven and sanctuary for native plants and animals.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.
See Schedule OHouston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a local arts and culture organization whose principal work is implementing the City of Houston's vision, values, and goals for its arts grantmaking and civic art investments. HAA conducts work…
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bamberger Ranch Preserve. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds Houston Center for Photography Inc ↗
- Who funds BakerRipley ↗
- Who funds Hope and Healing Center & Institute ↗
- Who funds Houston Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds Texas Cultural Trust Council ↗
- Who funds The Orange Show Foundation ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Agape Development Ministries ↗
- Who funds EAST SPRING BRANCH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds BOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds INPRINT INC ↗
- Who funds Joy Development School ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Parkinson Society ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN HIGHER LEARNING FLIGHT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Bamberger Ranch Preserve ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds POZOS ART PROJECT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Duncan Genesis Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Mechia Foundation · The Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Jbd Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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